The Desert King's Housekeeper Bride by Carol Marinelli

Author:Carol Marinelli
Language: eng
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Published: 2012-07-14T09:26:45+00:00

Well, what did she expect? Zakari reasoned, pacing the bedroom after she had gone. Kings didn’t fall in

love with maids. She should be pleased; in time she would be pleased… She had status now, a title, she had

more than she could ever have dreamed of in her meagre existence.

Picking up the phone, he summoned Hassan to his suite, handing over the treasure and telling him to break

the news to the Aristo palace and also to the press that the diamond was now his.

That Christos’s Legacy was about to be fulfilled!

‘Your Highness!’ Hassan held the jewel in his palm more tenderly than if it were a child. ‘You

have waited for this moment for so long.’

‘Where is Sheikha Stefania?’ Zakari asked.

‘She asked to be taken to her mother’s home.’ Hassan gave an exaggerated sigh. ‘She will

calm down, she will return soon…’

Only Zakari wasn’t so sure. When he had signed the marriage documents he had expected hurt, anger

even, when he eventually told her the news. But the woman who piece by piece had revealed herself last

night was a woman he hadn’t bargained on. She had blossomed before his eyes and under the guise of

his love she had flourished, and this morning he had watched her heart shatter.

‘I want a car placed outside the house,’ Zakari instructed. ‘The guard is to make sure she is not

disturbed and that she does not speak with the press. When she is ready to return to the palace he will bring

her to me.’

The news that Zakari had the stone ripped through the kingdoms of Aristo and Calista. Even Zakari was

slightly taken aback by the fallout as he watched the breaking news on television. Regular programming had

been suspended and on every channel it was the only subject on people’s minds. There was wailing in

the streets of Aristo, while the Calistan people, rather than celebrating, were to Zakari’s surprise rather

stunned and subdued. The Aristan royals had offered no comment but senior aides had already been

despatched to Calista and were demanding to sight the stone and prove its authenticity. Second, third, fourth

editions of the newspapers were being released, the later editions hazarding rapid guesses at what would

happen now—how the transition of power might take place and the daunting tasks that lay ahead.

Only the Calistan royals, it seemed, were in the mood for celebration.

Zakari, naturally the head of the table, joined by his brothers and sisters and Aarif’s and Kaliq’s

wives. Effie was noticeable only by her absence.

‘She will soon come to accept it,’ Aarif said.

‘Of course she will,’ Kalila agreed with her husband. ‘She has royal blood in her, after all.’

Zakari’s lips were suddenly dry. Reaching for his drink, he sipped the juice, but it did nothing to quench

his thirst, and he gestured impatiently for his water to be replenished before taking a long sip, only it did

nothing to refresh him either.

The bastard of Aegeus she might be, but there was more royal blood in Effie’s veins than his own and

he had witnessed it first-hand that very morning—that fire, pride and indefinable strength that marked her

out as being royal.

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